Observing at Crestview Park

Got a couple of hours observing in last night at Crestview Park in San Carlos. This spot is at 600 ft elevation, and gets reasonably dark especially to the West which is a straight shot out to Half Moon Bay with little intervening light pollution. I took my two older kids, and met up with a friend, his kids and telescope.

We observed Venus, Saturn, Mars, M81/M82, M37, M100 (I think ...) and M13 which is now back in the sky again. We were able to make out a number of the "faint fuzzies" in Virgo. Under dark skies, these would be a lot of fun - but we need to get somewhere much darker than San Carlos. At some point we'll get over to Montebello Open Space Preserve, which is at 2,200 ft and quite a bit further away from light pollution. The Dark Sky Finder (http://www.jshine.net/astronomy/dark_sky/) shows Montebello being in the orange zone - compared with Red for San Carlos.